How Erin got her (baking) groove back

Hello, apologies for not blogging in forrreevvverr!  It's been a time of moving and transition and I honestly haven't had time for baking.  But now I do and I am back!  And of course I'm back with cupcakes.  Seriously, it's still me here.

I love to take pictures of food almost as much as I love to make and eat it.  And with my new fancy phone, I've been doing that a whole lot more :)  So a few weeks ago we went out to dinner in Walnut Creek and I saw this yummy confection:

I don't want to toot my own horn or anything but I consider myself a pretty good baker, therefore, I hate to buy baked goods anywhere when I'm pretty sure I can make it just as well myself.  Plus we had plans to visit a fabulous creamery for sundaes later that night so an additional cupcake would have just been too much (even for me.)  So I took this picture and made a mental note to look up a recipe for that.

Well, surprise surprise that mental note got buried until last weekend when I felt like baking and busting this baby out.  Yes, this fire engine red Kitchen Aid mixer is my baby.  I love it!

I scoured baking blogs for a yummy Brown Sugar Cupcake recipe and deiced to use this one.  (mostly because it only made 12 cupcakes.  I really don't need more than that around my lil apartment.)    And for the frosting I used this one.  Mostly because we share the same last name.  It was a toss up between brown sugar frosting and brown butter frosting.  I seriously took me a good half hour to decide.  Thank goodness I have friends that help me out by flipping a coin!

And the end product was delicious!  But seriously it's not hard to go wrong with that much sugar :)  But we all know my math skills are less than stellar so while I only made 12 cupcakes, I made enough frosting for 24.  Ooopps, guess I have to look for another project to use all that frosting...

Stay tuned and I pinky promise to be better about blogging now.  All four of my readers out there can now breathe a sigh of relief ;)